Swiss banking giant UBS AG said Sunday it has stopped doing business with Iran because of the company's economic and risk analysis of the situation in the country. UBS will no longer deal with individuals, companies or state institutions such as Iran's central bank, company spokesman Serge Steiner said. A similar policy is also being implemented in the case of Syria, he said. All existing business with customers in Iran will be canceled, but Iranians in exile are not affected by the decision, Steiner said, confirming an article in Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung. ... http://www.buffalonews.com

A five-story building collapsed Monday in central Nairobi with more than 280 construction workers inside, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 70, witnesses and officials said. Rescuers dug into the rubble with their bare hands while the injured were loaded into any available car to be taken to hospitals. The hand of one trapped person could be seen waving for help from under a concrete beam. Tens of thousands of people ran to the site, clogging roads and climbing atop the debris to watch the rescue. Riot police used truncheons to beat back the crowds and to clear roads for emergency vehicles At the same time, however, police called for anyone with emergency training to come to the scene and help the rescue. Kenyatta General Hospital appealed for blood donations. Dozens of soldiers, firefighters, police officers and Red Cross workers responded, using crow bars and metal cutters to free those trapped. ...http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-23-kenya_x.htm?csp=34

The International Atomic Energy Agency chief on Monday refused EU and U.S. requests for a broad report on Iran's disputed atomic work in time for a February 2 IAEA crisis meeting, saying he needed more time to prepare one.Mohamed ElBaradei's response, whose text was obtained by Reuters, said he had given Iran until a regularly scheduled March 6 board session to answer questions about its nuclear program, which the West suspects aims to make nuclear bombs. "Due process, therefore, must take its course before (we) are able to submit a detailed report," ElBaradei wrote....http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1533260

In a wide-ranging defense of the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program, the government’s No. 2 intelligence official said Monday that the spy agency’s operations are not a drift net over U.S. communities. Gen. Michael Hayden, the former NSA director, described the 4-year-old program as narrowly targeted, using the same tools and techniques employed to decide whether to drop a 500-pound bomb on a terrorist target. Hayden now holds the second-ranking job in the Office of the National Intelligence Director, John Negroponte. If they use the “same tools and techniques employed to decide whether to drop a 500-pound bomb on a terrorist target” well we all know how many innocent people are killed because of their bad intelligence, but they want you to believe they will do a better job spying on you. They used the same cooked intelligence that got us into the Iraq mess. ...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10990829/from/RSS/

Gen. Augusto Pinochet's wife and four grown children were indicted and ordered arrested Monday on charges of tax evasion related to the former dictator's multimillion-dollar accounts at overseas banks, according to a judge's resolution read on state television.Judge Carlos Cerda also granted freedom on bail to Pinochet's wife, Lucia Hiriart and four of his five children -- Lucia, Veronica, Jacqueline and Marco Antonio, a benefit that must be upheld by the Santiago Court of Appeals. The older son, also named Augusto, was not indicted.The combined alleged tax evasion by the Pinochet family mentioned in the resolution amounts to $2.05 million.Also indicted were a lawyer for Pinochet and a secretary for Pinochet and the wife of Marco Antonio, his younger son....http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/01/23/pinochet.family.ap/index.html?section=cnn_world

A suicide car bomber blew up at an Iraqi police checkpoint Monday near the city's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing at least three people, an official with the Baghdad emergency police told CNN.At least seven other people were wounded in the explosion, which was not far from the Iranian Embassy, the official said.The Green Zone is home to U.S. military headquarters in the Iraqi capital and a number of government ministries and embassies.Another suicide car bomber exploded Monday at a joint U.S.-Iraqi army checkpoint in the Shurta Khamsa neighborhood in southwest Baghdad around 11 a.m. local time, the police official said....http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/23/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_world